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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen is a Korean Norwegian writer and former bookseller whose stories have appeared in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International Anthology,SmokeLong Quarterly, and Unstuck. She is the author of the story collectionBeneath the Liquid Skin, and the novel Une Ville Vide, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the British Science Fiction Award.

01/25/2016

Somewhere in a northern land, a man decides to leave his life and love in the city and sequester himself in a mountain cabin. The time is probably the not-so-distant future; but, as with so many aspects of Berit Ellingsen’s sci-fi novel Not Dark Yet, we’re asked to make up our own minds about that.…

Christopher Allen's book reviews have appeared in [PANK], Word Riot, Necessary Fiction, The Lit Pub and others. His own fiction has been featured in Eclectica Magazine, Literary Orphans, Change Seven Magazine and over 100 other great places. In 2015, Allen was the recipient of the Ginosko Literary Journal's flash fiction award. He's been a finalist at Glimmer Train and a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. He's the managing editor at SmokeLong Quarterly.

03/15/2013

The 23 stories in Beneath the Liquid Skin offer a balanced mix of longer fiction and flash, with many of the stories weighing in at two or three pages. Berit Ellingsen combines elements of the universe, the self, folk tales, history, nonduality, and classical literature, which work together in alchemical synergy to produce gold. The author’s…